Fauci offers an optimistic timeline for a coronavirus vaccine: a trial of 30,000 people next month,
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Fauci offers an optimistic timeline for a coronavirus vaccine: a trial of 30,000 people next month, and 200 million doses by 2021
Pharmaceutical companies are preparing to test their coronavirus vaccines on tens of thousands of people this summer.
We're going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works," Fauci said.
"We may know whether it's efficacious or not by maybe November, December. Which means that by that time, we hopefully would have close to 100 million doses. And by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses.
The fast-moving process has garnered an optimistic outlook from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said on Tuesday that the US could have hundreds of millions of approved vaccines by 2021.
Fauci added that he was involved in at least four other vaccine trials that will start throughout the summer.
"If the body is capa
Pharmaceutical companies are preparing to test their coronavirus vaccines on tens of thousands of people this summer.
We're going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works," Fauci said.
"We may know whether it's efficacious or not by maybe November, December. Which means that by that time, we hopefully would have close to 100 million doses. And by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses.
The fast-moving process has garnered an optimistic outlook from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said on Tuesday that the US could have hundreds of millions of approved vaccines by 2021.
Fauci added that he was involved in at least four other vaccine trials that will start throughout the summer.
"If the body is capa